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The students of the «Brain Power» team, with two mentors in orange T-shirts, behind their competition booth: trophies, diplomas and the flag of the Republic of Moldova on the table; in the background, balloons spelling 28675 and a banner with the name of the «Elada» high school.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Two teams from Ungheni district compete among 74 at an international robotics event in Istanbul

«Brain Power», the robotics team of the «Elada» theoretical high school in the village of Măcărești, and «Techno Storm», from the District Centre for Educational Support and Performance in Ungheni, are competing at the «Istanbul Premier Event» — an international FIRST Tech Challenge competition held from 26 to 28 June with 74 teams. Of the four Republic of Moldova teams in Istanbul, two come from Ungheni district. For «Brain Power», which won the Design Award at the national championship in Chișinău in February, this is a first international outing.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· News
A family doctor in a white coat works at a new laptop bearing an Interreg sticker, next to a printer, in a consulting room at the Ungheni Health Centre.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

A Romania–Moldova project equips 15 family doctors in Ungheni with laptops. The real stake isn't the devices, but catching the «silent» cancers early

Fifteen family doctors in the Ungheni district have received laptops and printers through «PREVENT», a cross-border project funded by the European Union, in partnership with the city of Iași and the «Grigore T. Popa» University of Medicine. The equipment is the visible part; the stated goal is another — to shift family medicine from treating disease to preventing it, with a focus on the cancers that don't hurt until it is too late: cervical, breast and colon. The project, worth about 415,000 euros, runs until April 2027.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· Explainer
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Collage of four young women graduates, each labelled with her name and high school: Ionela Lefter and Anastasia Rusu — «Vasile Alecsandri» High School, Andreea Mușet — «Alexandr Pușkin» High School, and Doina Prepeliță — «Ion Creangă» High School.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Six Ungheni graduates earned straight 10s at the Baccalaureate: the country's second town, after Chișinău

After appeals, six graduates from the town of Ungheni finished the 2026 Baccalaureate with a top mark of 10, not four: Ionela Lefter, Andreea Mușet, Doina Prepeliță, Alexandrina Rîsîpanu, Anastasia Rusu and Nichita Țurea. Nationally the final figure is 114 candidates, up from 85 in the preliminary results. Among the country's towns, Ungheni comes right after Chișinău — and four of the six are from the same high school.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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Five girls in green stage costumes in a dance pose with one leg raised high, against a white backdrop bearing the contest logo.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Moldova's flag on the top step in Iași: five gymnasts from Ungheni take first place at «Summer Dance Rhythm»

Five members of the «Santé Gym» club in Ungheni climbed to the top of the podium at the «Summer Dance Rhythm» international dance contest, held on 20 June in Iași. With their «Zânele Pădurii» (Forest Fairies) routine, the girls won first place at a competition across the Prut — in the city twinned with Ungheni for ten years now. A small but living thread of the friendship between the two banks.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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Two representatives of the Ungheni Vocational School present the school's trades offer in front of a screen showing the study programmes, in a bright room.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni district is emptying out, but its only vocational school has 538 students — more than three years ago

From March to May, the Ungheni Vocational School — the only one in the district — took its trades offer into the lower-secondary schools of four districts through a campaign it called the 'Trades Caravan 2026'. Behind a routine recruitment drive sits a trend that runs against the demographics: while the district lost almost 22,000 residents in 11 years, the school has reached 538 students, nearly a third more than three years ago, and vocational education is rebounding nationwide too. Here is what a lower-secondary graduate from Ungheni can study at home in 2026 — and why it matters.

Ion Calmis·19 June 2026· Explainer
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Participants seated around a seminar table, printed information materials in front of them and a projection screen reading «The Balance between Family and Work».
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni's social services and youth centre held a seminar on the family–work balance

The «YK ImPuls» youth health centre and the territorial social-assistance body held a training seminar on June 18 about parenting skills and the stress between work and family. The local stakes are not small: in 2024, Ungheni district recorded nearly 73 divorces for every 100 marriages, and the number of newborns fell by about 39% in six years.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
A study desk with an open laptop on a video call with several windows, next to French textbooks, an open dictionary, a notebook with notes and small flags of France and the Republic of Moldova — illustrative image.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

In Ungheni, an agro-industrial college brought students closer to French through an online project with schools in Romania and Orhei

The Agro-Industrial College in Ungheni has completed a cross-border online education project dedicated to the French language and Francophonie, together with two schools in Romania and one in Orhei. The project runs against the current: in the Moldovan school, French has dropped from the most studied foreign language some fifteen years ago to just one in three students today.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
Illustration: a children's reading corner in a library — shelves of colourful books, open books on a low table and an armchair; warm light, no people in the frame.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

How Ungheni’s libraries hold on in a district with ever fewer children

A donation of children's books, made by writer Elena Vizir to a library in Ungheni, looks like a small gesture. Set against the official figures, it touches a nerve: over two decades, the book stock of the district's libraries has thinned by a quarter — and yet people use them more than fifteen years ago. In a district losing its young people, a library full of children is no longer a banality, but news.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
A modern, empty classroom with rows of wooden desks, a clean blackboard and a stack of notebooks on the teacher's desk in warm morning light — illustrative image.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

An Ungheni high school went through a national program for principals, against a shortfall of 73 teachers in the district

The management team of the «Mihai Eminescu» high school in Ungheni was among the roughly 13 institutions in the country included in the «Investim în directori» program, whose closing conference took place on June 17. The program, run by the ministry and the National Institute for Education and Leadership, bet on training school leadership — in a system that is losing teaching staff, while in Ungheni 73 positions remain unfilled, three of them precisely at «Eminescu».

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News